Uneasy Alchemy

Barbara L Allen

• Hardcover | Urban and Industrial Environments
• How coalitions of citizens and experts have been effective in promoting environmental justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor. Lees meer

Form and Flow

Kian Goh

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An examination of urban climate change response strategies and the resistance to them by grassroots activists and social movements. Cities around the ... Lees meer

Liquid Power

Erik Swyngedouw

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An examination of the central role of water politics and engineering in Spain's modernization, illustrating water's part in forging, maintaining, and ... Lees meer

Science and Environment in Chile

Javiera Barandiaran

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• The politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a "neutral broker" rather than protecting the ... Lees meer

Street Science

Jason Corburn

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• When environmental health problems arise in a community, policymakers must be able to reconcile the first-hand experience of local residents with reco... Lees meer

The Making of Grand Paris

Theresa Enright

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris--the "Grand Paris" initiative--and the building of today's networked global city. In 2007 the... Lees meer

The Environmental Advantages of Cities

William B Meyer

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An analysis that offers evidence to challenge the widely held assumption that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds. Conventi... Lees meer

Labor and the Environmental Movement

Brian K. (Chair/ Professor of Sociology, State University of New

• Hardcover | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An analysis of cooperation between organized labor and the environmental movement based on examples of coalition building from around the United State... Lees meer

American Urban Form

Sam Bass Warner, Andrew Whittemore

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. American Urban Form --the spaces, plac... Lees meer

Chemicals Without Harm

Ken Geiser

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• A proposal for a new chemicals strategy: that we work to develop safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals rather than focusing exclusively on control... Lees meer

The Equitably Resilient City

Zachary B Lamb, Lawrence J Vale

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• Twelve global planning and urban design interventions--and what they reveal about equity-centered urban resilience in the face of climate change. Hill... Lees meer

Blue and Green

Scott L Cummings

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port. In Blue an... Lees meer

Constructing Green

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• Experts consider green construction and the social, institutional, and cultural changes associated with it, through a sociological and organizational ... Lees meer

Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union

• Hardcover | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An examination of the awareness of environmental and social justice issues in the former Soviet republics-from the Western-style democracies of the Ba... Lees meer

The Code of the City

Eran Ben-Joseph

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• Standards and codes dictate virtually all aspects of urban development. The same standards for subdividing land, grading, laying streets and utilities... Lees meer

Greening the Ivory Tower

Sarah Hammond Creighton

• Paperback | Urban and Industrial Environments
• A practical guide to how the university can serve as a model of environmental stewardship. Lees meer

Owning the Street

Amelia Thorpe

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• How local, specific, and personal understandings about belonging, ownership, and agency intersect with law to shape the city. In Owning the Street , A... Lees meer

In the Images of Development

Tridib Banerjee

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• The urban legacy of the Global South since the colonial era and how sustainable development and environmental and social justice can be achieved. Rema... Lees meer

Fighting King Coal

Shannon Elizabeth Bell

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements. In th... Lees meer

Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability

Keith Pezzoli

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• The heart of the book is the story of what happened when residents of Mexico City's Ajusco settlements fought relocation by proposing that the areas b... Lees meer

Making Microchips

Jan Mazurek

• Hardcover | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An examination of the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexi... Lees meer

Environmental Justice and Environmentalism

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• Analysis and case studies from interdisciplinary perspectives explore the possibility and desirability of collaboration between the grassroots-oriente... Lees meer

Resigned Activism

Anna (Associate Professor, University of Oxford) Lora-Wainwright

• Paperback | Urban and Industrial Environments
• An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response. Lees meer

Co-Cities

Sheila R Foster, Christian Iaione

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Industrial Environments
• A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city's infrastructure and services. The majority of the world's... Lees meer